Weather Eye: Rainfall set some records in county
Aloha and greetings from the Big Island of Hawaii! I must say it was sure nice to get off the plane Monday and see sunshine, palm trees and warmth I could feel clear to the bone. Must make this an...
View ArticleDike Access Road onramp reopens
The Dike Access Road onramp to northbound Interstate 5 in Woodland is open again. A landslide covered part of the ramp and forced the Washington Department of Transportation to close it last Wednesday....
View ArticleHudson’s Bay to have basketball fundraiser
Hudson’s Bay Foundation will host a March Madness Fundraiser, with proceeds benefiting programs for students, faculty and the school. The themed fundraiser will feature a buffet dinner and drinks,...
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Grant flies in coconuts to help students study Mardi Gras
Washougal — Using a Washougal Schools Foundation mini grant, a group of Washougal High School students received a shipment of coconut shells from Florida and painted them in honor of Mardi Gras...
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Orchards teacher earns Educator of the Year
Five Corners — Orchards Elementary School’s Shelly Waymire was awarded the Evergreen School District Foundation’s Educator of the Year award during a school staff meeting March 8. Waymire is a special...
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Neighbors honor retiring mail carrier
Northwest — Scott McHale delivered mail in the Northwest Neighborhood for the last 17 years until he retired on March 3. On that day, neighbors gathered to honor McHale for his years of service to the...
View ArticleClark College journalists score awards at conference
Central Park — Clark College student journalists scored first- and fourth-place finishes during the annual Associated Collegiate Press’ midwinter conference, held March 2-5 in San Francisco, Calif. The...
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Rotarians hold shoe drive for Roosevelt students
Bagley Downs — The Vancouver Sunrise Rotary held a shoe drive for Roosevelt Elementary School, collecting more than 30 pairs of shoes for the students. The Rotary club adopted Roosevelt earlier this...
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Furry Friends receives emergency medical grant
Walnut Grove — Furry Friends received a $1,000 grant from the Petfinder Foundation. The emergency medical grant program is used to assist Petfinder members who are caring for a pet that needs special...
View ArticleEverybody Has a Story: Surprise storm turns walk home into near-tragedy
In 1956, we often danced in our stocking feet. That was called a sock hop. It was usually held in the high school gymnasium after a basketball game. As our parents left one such game, my friend Jeannie...
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County GOP keeps Lahren as speaker
Clark County Republicans plan to keep conservative political observer Tomi Lahren — who is facing a wave of backlash after she said she was pro-choice on a national talk show last week — as their...
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Affordable housing projects dot 1-mile stretch of Fourth Plain
The Fourth Plain corridor could become a mecca of affordable housing over the next couple of years, with six subsidized apartment projects slated to be built along a 1-mile stretch of the central...
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3-D art shapes up City Hall
If you stroll by Kim Murton’s west Vancouver picture window, beware: You might get made into a flathead. That’s what Murton calls her whimsical ceramic portraits of people and other strange creatures....
View ArticleGifford Pinchot National Forest snow report 3/23
Mount St. Helens — Fifty-two inches at Cougar Sno-Park and 60 inches at Marble Mountain Sno-Park. Road No. 83 is clear. June Lake has 124 inches, down 10 inches in the past week. Wind River — Road No....
View ArticleWorkers needed for Cape Horn trail
SKAMANIA — Volunteers are needed for five spring work parties to maintain Cape Horn Trail in western Skamania County. The work days are Saturday, April 14, April 29, May 12 and May 27. Work begins at...
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Columbia River fishing report 3/23
Given that the lower Columbia River is at minor flood stage and has about a foot of visibility, it’s amazing that more than 2,000 anglers went out last week in pursuit of spring chinook. Granted,...
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Researchers: Columbia spring chinook forecast might be too high
NEWPORT, Ore. — Fisheries managers have been predicting a slightly below-average run of spring chinook salmon on the Columbia River this year, but a newly published suggests that it may be worse....
View ArticleGuide fined for cutting fins off wild coho
TACOMA — A Western Washington fishing guide has been fined $7,500 in U.S. District Court for violating the federal Endangered Species Act in a 2014 incident on the Cowlitz River. Billy Swann, 52, owner...
View ArticleWashington to consider Oregon’s Columbia River salmon reforms
OLYMPIA — The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission plans a special meeting via a conference call at 8:30 a.m. Friday to review Oregon’s version of the Columbia River salmon reforms. For the public...
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Clark Talks: Podcast discusses dangers to kids online
This week’s episode of Clark Talks, The Columbian’s weekly podcast, brings you a preview of an upcoming story on online child exploitation. Clark Talks hosts Katie Gillespie and Dameon Pesanti chat...
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